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PianoStaff

Just like GrandStaff but with minVerticalAlign set equal to maxVerticalAlign so that interstaff beaming and slurring can be used.

This context creates the following grobs: Arpeggio, InstrumentName, SpanBar, SystemStartDelimiter and VerticalAlignment.

Context PianoStaff can contain Staff

This context is built from the following engravers:

Engraver_group_engraver

A group of engravers taken together

Engraver_group_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, ChoirStaff, LyricsVoice, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Thread, RhythmicStaff, Voice, Staff, ChordNames, StaffContainer, InnerStaffGroup, InnerChoirStaff, NoteNames and StaffGroup

Instrument_name_engraver

Prints the name of the instrument (specified by Staff.instrument and Staff.instr) at the left of the staff.

Properties

instrument (markup (list or string)):

If Instrument_name_engraver is added to the Staff translator, then the instrument property is used to label the first line of the staff and the instr property is used to label subsequent lines. If the midiInstrument property is not set, then instrument is used to determine the instrument for MIDI output.

instr (markup (list or string)):

see instrument

Instrument_name_engraver is part of contexts: PianoStaff and Staff

Vertical_align_engraver

Catch Vertical axis groups and stack them.

This engraver creates the following grobs: VerticalAlignment.

Vertical_align_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, PianoStaff and Score

Property_engraver

This is a engraver that converts property settings into back-end grob-property settings. Example: Voice.stemLength will set #'length in all Stem objects.

Due to CPU and memory requirements, the use of this engraver is deprecated.

Properties

Generic_property_list (list):

description of the conversion.

Defines names and types for generic properties. These are properties than can be plugged into the backend directly. See the init file generic-property.scm for details. For internal use only, deprecated.

Property_engraver is part of contexts: Lyrics, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Grace, Thread, RhythmicStaff, Voice, Staff and ChordNames

System_start_delimiter_engraver

creates a SystemStartDelimiter spanner

This engraver creates the following grobs: SystemStartDelimiter.

System_start_delimiter_engraver is part of contexts: ChoirStaff, PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Score, InnerStaffGroup, InnerChoirStaff and StaffGroup

Span_arpeggio_engraver

Properties

connectArpeggios (boolean):

If set, connect all arpeggios that are found. In this way, you can make arpeggios that cross staffs.

Span_arpeggio_engraver is part of contexts: PianoStaff, GrandStaff, Score, InnerStaffGroup and StaffGroup

Span_bar_engraver

This engraver makes cross-staff barlines: It catches all normal bar lines, and draws a single span-bar across them.

This engraver creates the following grobs: SpanBar.

Span_bar_engraver is part of contexts: PianoStaff, GrandStaff, InnerStaffGroup and StaffGroup

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